"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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This week: Nursing homes terminated hundreds of Haitian workers with TPS. Major airports fired Haitian janitors, cabin cleaners and wheelchair attendants. Schools let go of drivers and landscapers. My reporting on the fallout of Haiti TPS termination. t.co/vCyqrl7hK3

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

It’s Scary As Hell Being Black in America Right Now theintercept.com/2026/07/19/n...

It’s Scary As Hell Being Black in America Right Now

The deaths of Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley are symptoms of a nation retreating from any pretense of equal rights.

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'ending violent crime' is not what soldiers do, nor is it Trump's actual goal the real aim is using the full force of the U.S. government, up to and including the military, to terrorize people of color this is illegal, ofc, but some courts are letting him do so ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Judges Paved the Way For the Killing of Tyrin Johnson In Memphis

The shooting death of Tyrin Johnson is the predictable consequence of the legal system letting Trump turn the American military against Americans.

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An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.

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ICE's transformation into Trump's personal secret police force is now complete. www.wired.com/story/ices-i...

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

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Now that the government’s persecution of trans people has gone beyond sports and medicine for teens, where are all the people who insisted they weren’t "anti-trans" but just had some “reasonable concerns"? www.readtpa.com/p/reasonable...

Reasonable Concerns

The wedge on trans people moved exactly where we said it would. The people who gave it cover are still quiet.

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Actual Racism Is Invisible To Sam Alito, Because It’s Just His Own Worldview A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court's six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent rule on… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/29/actual-racism-is-invisible-to-sam-alito-because-its-just-his-own-worldview/

Actual Racism Is Invisible To Sam Alito, Because It’s Just His Own Worldview

A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court's six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent rule on whose votes count: Black people's votes shouldn't count. The pattern was simple. If a ruling would help Black votes count, the Court — led by Justice Samuel Alito — found a reason to block it. If it would help suppress the Black vote, that was treated as normal and fine.

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Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE

She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.

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New: I wrote about everyone intently watching the long process of removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and how it revealed our insatiable thirst for accountability — and for his humiliation.

The night the letters came down

A marathon livestream of Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center was a rare moment of monoculture.

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With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate

Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.

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ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements. The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...

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NEW: Blackwater founder Erik Prince is Chairman of drone company Swarmer which operates in Ukraine - Swarmer has just signed an MOU with drone company Powerus that plans to merge with a firm where Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investors. My latest:

Blackwater founder Erik Prince is Chairman of drone company Swarmer, which signed an MOU with drone company Powerus, which plans to merge with a firm backed by Trump sons Eric and Don Jr.

A drone company where Erik Prince serves as Non-Executive Chairman signed an MOU with another drone company that is planning to merge with a firm where Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investors.

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1. A Popular Information reveals that two more "progressive" super PACs are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson. They've worked pretty hard to cover their tracks, but not quite hard enough. Follow along for details.

Two “progressive” super PACs linked to House GOP

Two newly formed super PACs which purport to be progressive are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a Popular Information investigation reveals.

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NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city

Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.

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Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

News incoming (good news from me for once!) …

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid

Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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this is a masterpiece

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial. This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary. www.citationneeded.news/signup/

Citation Needed

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Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

This is our version of service journalism. Save this one as an easy reference for when you’re called upon to address how things got this bad:

Five Ways The War on Terror Empowered The ICE Assault

We got an advance look at a new analysis from the Costs of War Project about the heritage of the 9/11 era on current ICE operations

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EXCLUSIVE: Parents told us their children’s headaches and dizziness appeared during the school year and cleared up during breaks. One mother said she suspected her daughter was making things up — until she read @saulelbein.bsky.social’s story in @thebarbedwire.com thebarbedwire.com/2026/05/05/h...

She Thought Her Daughter Was Faking Sick. Then She Found Out Her Elementary School Was Built on a Drilling Waste Site.

Homeowners are livid they weren’t told what their properties were built on. The developers claim it’s all perfectly safe.

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In this #newblogpost I extend my arguments about the (im)possibility of decolonial GenAI. I specifically focus on the points of divergence between GenAI reliance on colonial structures of flattening what makes us human and decolonisation's refusal of those structures folukeafrica.com/being-human-...

Being Human Once More: Some reflections on decolonisation and GenAI

Is GenAI’s future humanity inevitable, or is ours in jeopardy?

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The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May 2025 w/ @tennesseelookout.com)

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.

The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

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